The GA video lectures are normally only available to GA Members but for the duration of the Covid-19 lockdown, they will be freely available to all interested in geology. We hope you enjoy them!
If you missed one of our lectures or simply wish to watch it again…
Where permission has been granted by the speaker, lectures are freely available to GA Members and can be viewed by clicking on the links below:
2021
2020
July 10 – A live-streamed vLecture: The weird and wonderful world of Sedimentology
Dr Jon Noad
February 7 – Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater
Prof Jo Morgan
2019
October 4 – Searching for an impact crater in Scotland
Dr Mike Simms
July 5 – Cretaceous amber: bits of ancient ecosystems
Dr Ricardo Perez-De-La-Fuente
May 3 – AGM and Presidential Address
Risky Business –Exploring for Hydrocarbons
Nick Pierpoint
April 5 – Minerals of the English Midlands
Roy Starkey
January 4 – Control the Drainage: the Gospel Accorded to Sinkholes
Dr Tony Waltham
2018
December 7 – Hyoliths – where they fit in
Dr Martin Smith
October 5th – Redrawing the geological map of South Wales
Professor John C. W. Cope
May 4 2018 – AGM and Presidential Address – Dr Colin Prosser
Geoconservation for science and society
April 6 2018 – Halstead Lecture – Dr Craig McGee
How it’s made: Volcanoes
February 2 2018 – Mike Howgate
A sceptical look at the Dino-Bird controvesy
January 5 2018 – Dr Danny Clark-Lowes
Enigmas in Himalayan Geology.
2017
December 1 2017 – Prof Tamsin Mather
Volcanoes and Global change?
October 6 – Dr Maria McNamara
New Advances in the study of fossil animal colour
July 7 – Antonio Ferreira
Radon, the Geogenic Gas
June 2 2017- Dean Lomax
The incredible Ichthyosaurus: a reassessment of a British Jurassic Icon
March 3 2017 – Dr Thomas Gernon – Diamonds and Chocolate: New Volcanic Process Discovered
January 6 2017 – Prof Paul Upchurch – New Perspectives on dinosaur diversity and extinction
2016
October 7 2016 – Haydon Bailey – The Geology of the Chilterns and the potential impact of HS2
June 3 2016- Dr Colin Summerhayes, Cambridge – Earth’s Climate Evolution
Unfortunately, a recording fault meant that the lecture powerpoints were not recorded. These can be downloaded here (Dr Colin Summerhayes, PPT) and you can view these alongside listening to the recording.
April 1 2016- Dr Julie Prytulak – The Biggest Volcano on Earth
February 5 2016 – Dr Imran Rahman – A Virtual World of Palaeontology
2015
2nd October 2015 – Chris Jackson – The rock that wouldn’t stay still; an introduction to salt
5th June 2015 – Mike Rumsey – Unusual minerals in the Mendip Hills
1st May 2015 – Haydon Bailey – AGM and Presidential Address
9th January 2015 – Dr Rebecca Bell
2014
5th December 2014 – Andrew Bloodworth
4th July 2014 – Ed Jarzembowski
9th May 2014 – Rory Mortimore – AGM and Presidential Address
4th April 2014 – Vladimir Zholobenko
7th March 2014 – Haydon Bailey
February 2014 – Lecture not available
January 2014 – Lecture not available
2013
6th December 2013 – Mark Sutton
November 2013 – Lecture not available
4th October 2013 – Phil Harding
7th June 2013 – Malcolm Butler
1st May 2013 – GA Presidential Address: Professor Rory Mortimore
5th April 2013 – Haydon Bailey
1st March 2013 – Rory Mortimore
January/February 2013 – Lectures not available
2012
7th December 2012 – Phil Jardine
Video Lectures
March 5 vLecture – Halstead Lecture: Earthquake chasing around the world
Dr Zöe Mildon (University Plymouth)
February 5 vLecture – Tectonic plates, mantle plumes, and the importance of keeping good time
Dr Lucía Pérez Diaz (University of Oxford)
January 8 vLecture – Almost like being there: new approaches to deciphering animal behaviour from trace fossils
Dr Jon Noad (Canada)
December 3 vLecture – Environmental conditions that existed during rebuilding of an early Carboniferous ecosystem
Prof. Sarah Davies (Leicester University)
October 2 vLecture Presidential Address: Exploring for Hydrocarbons – a Risky Business Nick Pierpoint, Senior Vice President
September 11 – Comparing the flints of the Upper Cretaceous of England with the cherts/flints from the Eocene-Miocene White Limestone of Jamaica Prof Simon F. Mitchell, from The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
July 10 – A live-streamed vLecture: The weird and wonderful world of Sedimentology
Dr Jon Noad
Scheduled for 5 June & now available. 2019 GASS Best Presentation Award winner: Deep carbon cycling over the past 200 million years: contributions from tectonic settings. Kevin Wong (2019 Award Winner)
March 6 – Environments and Landscapes during the development of the mid-Palaeocene Hebridean Igneous Province, NW Scotland
Dr Ian Williamson
February 7 – Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater
Prof Jo Morgan
January 3 – Strange bedfellows (Life, Oxygen and Gypsum) during the emergence of complex life around the Ediacaran Cambrian transition
Prof Graham Shields
December 6 – The Secret Life of the starfish: The origin of asterozoan echinoderms in the Ordovician
Dr Aaron Hunter
October 4 – Searching for an impact crater in Scotland
Dr Mike Simms
July 5 – Cretaceous amber: bits of ancient ecosystems
Dr Ricardo Perez-De-La-Fuente
June 7 – Virtual Reality and Drone Mapping- Geological Applications of Immersive Learning
Claudia Ruiz-Graham
May 3 – AGM and Presidential Address
Risky Business –Exploring for Hydrocarbons
Nick Pierpoint
April 5 – Minerals of the English Midlands
Roy Starkey
March 8 – Halstead Lecture
The secret Life of salt giants: 3d seismic data reveals new insights into the structural evolution of salt-influenced passive margins
Sian Evans
February 1 – Henry Stopes Lecture
The Climate, palaeogeography and early human settlement of Britain Prof Nick Ashton
January 4 2019 – Control the Drainage: the Gospel Accorded to Sinkholes
Dr Tony Waltham
December 7 2018 – Hyoliths – where they fit in
Dr Martin Smith
October 5th – Redrawing the geological map of South Wales
Professor John C. W. Cope
May 4 2018 – AGM and Presidential Address
Geoconservation for science and society
Dr Colin Prosser
April 6 2018 – Halstead Lecture – Dr Craig McGee
How it’s made: Volcanoes
February 2 2018 – Mike Howgate
A sceptical look at the Dino-Bird controvesy.
January 5 2018 – Dr Danny Clark-Lowes
Enigmas in Himalayan Geology.
December 1 2017 – Prof Tamsin Mather
Volcanoes and Global change?
October 6 – Dr Maria McNamara
New Advances in the study of fossil animal colour
July 7 – Antonio Ferreira
Radon, the Geogenic Gas
June 2 2017- Dean Lomax
The incredible Ichthyosaurus: a reassessment of a British Jurassic Icon
May 5 2017- Dr Colin Prosser
AGM and Presidential Address
Conserving Rocks! – How did that come about? A brief history of Geoconservation in the UK
April 7 2017- Professor Tim Reston – Crustal Thinning – What happens when a continent breaks up
This lecture is only available as an audio recording.
March 3 2017 – Dr Thomas Gernon – Diamonds and Chocolate: New Volcanic Process Discovered
February 3 2017- Prof Simon Lewis – The Palaeolithic of Breckland: old sites, new questions
Henry Stopes Memorial Lecture
January 6 2017 – Prof Paul Upchurch – New Perspectives on dinosaur diversity and extinction
December 2 2016 – Prof John Cosgrove – The Evolution of a fold thrust belt – an example from the Zagros Mountains of Iran
October 7 2016 – Haydon Bailey – The Geology of the Chilterns and the potential impact of HS2
July 1 2016 – Dr Lidia Lonergan – The Geology and Scenery of Italy: the Role of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonic Plates
June 3 2016- Dr Colin Summerhayes, Cambridge – Earth’s Climate Evolution
Unfortunately, a recording fault meant that the lecture powerpoints were not recorded. These can be downloaded here ( Dr Colin Summerhayes, PPT) and you can view these alongside listening to the recording.
May 6 2016 – Dr Haydon Bailey – AGM and Presidential Address
Foraminifera II: Planktonics – The free floating story
April 1 2016- Dr Julie Prytulak – The Biggest Volcano on Earth
March 11 2016 – Dr Nick Longrich – Giant marine reptiles and whales during the Eocene-Oligocene cooling event
February 5 2016 – Dr Imran Rahman – A Virtual World of Palaeontology
January 8 2016 – Dr Fausto Ferraccioli – The Gambursev Subglacial Mountains parodox in East Antarctica: solved or enduringly enigmatic?
December 11th 2015 – Dr Helen Dacre – The largest airspace shutdown since WWII: Volcanic ash prediction and its challenges
2nd October 2015 – Chris Jackson – The rock that wouldn’t stay still; an introduction to salt
5th June 2015 – Mike Rumsey – Unusual minerals in the Mendip Hills
1st May 2015 – Haydon Bailey – AGM and Presidential Address
6th March 2015 – Dave Martill
13th February 2015 – Alex Liu
9th January 2015 – Dr Rebecca Bell
5th December 2014 – Andrew Bloodworth
4th July 2014 – Ed Jarzembowski
9th May 2014 – Rory Mortimore – AGM and Presidential Address
4th April 2014 – Vladimir Zholobenko
7th March 2014 – Haydon Bailey
February 2014 – Lecture not available
January 2014 – Lecture not available
6th December 2013 – Mark Sutton
November 2013 – Lecture not available
4th October 2013 – Phil Harding
5th July 2013 – Leanne Hughes
7th June 2013 – Malcolm Butler
1st May 2013 – GA Presidential Address: Professor Rory Mortimore
5th April 2013 – Haydon Bailey
1st March 2013 – Rory Mortimore
January/February 2013 – Lectures not available
7th December 2012 – Phil Jardine